Swindon Town v Exeter City FC Matchday Thread

[Drew Peacock]

Just got home, not the best of games but a decent result bauy

 

[KingBilly]

Interesting to note that the opponents in our next three league games have games against Man Utd, Arsenal and Man City, currently the country's top three teams. Wonder how that'll affect the clubs and their preparations?

Just watched Southampton give Man Utd the run around for long periods. If they play anywhere near that against us, I fear the worst.

 

[Oli]

It was cold, very cold, very very cold.

The game was poor, very poor, very very poor.

Taylor, Duffy and Hamer come out with some credit. Though Hamer did flap a couple of times, he did show good delivery. The rest of the team might as well have not been there. The confidence, zip, passing, tic tac that we were playing with before Christmas has gone. Swindon had 2 good chances that should have been goals. But they were really the only clear chances for either side.

That said, a point away from home, deal.

 

[pct333]

What about this for a thinking-out-of-the-box suggestion. Play Sercombe at right back and give Tully a rest.*-)

 

[arthur]

That was an appalling performance - suffice to say that if Town had any sort of striker at all, City would have been 3-0 down by HT. This was worse than the away game at Orient, City were lucky in that Swindon were just as crap.

Positives, Matt Taylor back to his imperious best, Hamer was solid and Harley showed the class that City will sorely miss next season.

Negatives; Sercombe - utter dross typified by a header near the centre circle that went for a corner. He is providing so little to the City cause at the moment. Tully - probably the worst game that I have ever seen him play. He was roasted by O'Brien. Thomson - I just dont see what he has to offer, he is lightweight, loses the ball easily, rarely picks a good pass - total waste of a shirt. Nardiello - just poor. And Nobes ran out of steam in the last 15 minutes.

There was just a general lack of cohesion, nobody seemed to know what they were supposed to be doing and there was a lack of effort. One incident where 3 City players just watched one Town player challenge and get the ball.

So disappointing for the 950 City supporters who had to sit in the biting cold and watch that dross. That was not good enough.

This is very bad news (worse than Orient - that is worrying) and what's worse this is not a one off, but part of a trend. (Thankfully no asinine "bad day at the office" posts so far)

The transfer window closes on Monday - at the very least Jake Thomson needs to be helped through it, and one or two people need to be brought in to shore things up a bit

 

[dommers]

That was an appalling performance - suffice to say that if Town had any sort of striker at all, City would have been 3-0 down by HT. This was worse than the away game at Orient, City were lucky in that Swindon were just as crap.

Positives, Matt Taylor back to his imperious best, Hamer was solid and Harley showed the class that City will sorely miss next season.

Negatives; Sercombe - utter dross typified by a header near the centre circle that went for a corner. He is providing so little to the City cause at the moment. Tully - probably the worst game that I have ever seen him play. He was roasted by O'Brien. Thomson - I just dont see what he has to offer, he is lightweight, loses the ball easily, rarely picks a good pass - total waste of a shirt. Nardiello - just poor. And Nobes ran out of steam in the last 15 minutes.

There was just a general lack of cohesion, nobody seemed to know what they were supposed to be doing and there was a lack of effort. One incident where 3 City players just watched one Town player challenge and get the ball.

So disappointing for the 950 City supporters who had to sit in the biting cold and watch that dross. That was not good enough.

Not a great performance but I'd rather that and get a point than play really well and lose (like at home to Brighton)

 

[EX4 6PX]

You just can't argue with the result. Neither keeper had much to do and neither side really looked like scoring. Our delivery to the front three (and then two) was not good enough.

Highlight was the goal music which was played even though the Swindon goal was ruled out for offside.

 

[east_mid]

What about this for a thinking-out-of-the-box suggestion. Play Sercombe at right back and give Tully a rest.*-)

Im sure he has played there before & not only for the reserves.

 

[ronniej]

loads of beer great company UP[ THE CITY .IM ****** AND IKNOW I AM

 

[scottus86]

A very boring game, not sure why Cureton was taken off, but Thomson wasn't up to much, Tully was awful. O'flynn and Nardiello wanted to take the next two weeks to decide if they were going to run with the ball, choose a pass, or to shoot, by which time they'd been tackled and the ball was straight out to their left winger. Harley and Noble didn't do very much, neither did Sercombe.